The Beautiful Mind
Whenever I hear the name Jhon Nash maths comes to my mind. I am pretty bad at maths but I still love maths.
Thanks to people like Jhon Nash, and Ramanujan they have always inspired many people across the globe.
But having one less John Nash in the world is a sad. Sad thing especially because he died due to an car accident.
Nash was born on June 13, 1928, in Bluefield, he was fighting his on-going battle with schizophrenia, finding
Himself going in and out psychiatric hospitals as his mind battled inner demons against its inner brilliance.
Nash attended Carnegie Mellon University and moved on to Princeton after that.
At Princeton, Nash came up with the Nash equilibrium, which I can explain as a solution concept of a non-cooperative game involving two or more players, in which each player is assumed to know the equilibrium strategies of the other players, and no player has anything to gain by changing only their own strategy. If each player has chosen a strategy and no player can benefit by changing strategies while the other players keep theirs unchanged, then the current set of strategy choices and the corresponding payoffs constitutes a Nash equilibrium. The reality of the Nash equilibrium of a game can be tested using experimental economics method. Stated simply, if I and my friend are in Nash equilibrium if I am making the best decision I can, taking into account friend's decision while my friend's decision remains unchanged, and my friend is making the best decision he can, taking into account my decision while my decision remains unchanged. Likewise, a group of players are in Nash equilibrium if each one is making the best decision possible, taking into account the decisions of the others in the game as long the other party’s decision remains unchanged.
Courtesy of Wikipedia.
I’ve read it many times before I could understand it completely. Its really hard to come up with such an beautiful idea.
During my college years, I attempting my own Nash equilibrium, in which I am trying to impress girls with my strategies before my friends could.¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
He is a Nobel Prize winner and his theories are used in everything from economics, computer technology, artificial intelligence, accounting, politics, and military theory.
It’s his battle that he fought with himself, trying to live his life in reality when he didn’t always know what was real and what wasn’t.
I would also like to mention this regarding Jhon Nash. He had began a relationship in Massachusetts with Eleanor Stier, a nurse he met while she cared for him as a patient. They had a son, John David Stier,but Nash left Stier when she told him of her pregnancy. He was said to have abandoned her based on her social status, which he thought to have been beneath his.
Also the relationship he had with his wife, Alicia where he first married in 1957.
She also divorced him in 1963 though she always remained a part
of his life through his struggles and fight against mental illness.
They remarried in 2001, soulmates who lost their way to only to find each other once again.
Sadly, Alicia Nash was also killed in the same accident.
On Saturday, they were riding in a taxi on the New Jersey Turnpike, near Monroe Township, N.J. The taxi driver lost control of his car while he was trying to pass another and struck a guard rail.
Both Nash and his wife, neither of whom were wearing seat belts, were thrown from the car and killed.
John Nash was 86 years old when he died. He is survived by his two sons and a grandson.
RIP JHON NASH
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